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I was born and have grown up in the country in a small village beside a beautiful river. My village is surrounded in a hedge of green bamboos. Most of the houses in the village are built of brick and have...

There are such moving incidents in our lives that we can never forget. As for me, the most remarkable event in my life is the memory of my first day at school...

The house we are living in is situated in the suburb of HCM city, within thirty minutes? drive off the central city. We have lived there for more than twenty years. This is a fairly...

As usual, the nearer the rainy season draws on, the hotter it becomes. I cannot bear the suffocating and stifling heat of these days. So last Sunday I decided to spend my holiday at Vung Tau seaside with my friends...

Whoever has been to Hue ancient city will always admire the gracefulness of Trang Tien Bridge. Built a long time ago, Trang Tien Bridge was made of steel and concrete and supported by huge underwater columns which extend to a depth of over 150 meters under the water....

We live in the suburb of HCM city. Twice a week my mother and I usually take a bus to HCM city to do some shopping. Yesterday was my mother?s off-day. Early in the morning we took a bus to town...

At first hearing, this seems a strange, almost an absurd saying. What! No progress? Why, compare the world today with what it was in antiquity, in the middle Ages, or even only two hundred years ago...

The given statement might have been correct long ago, perhaps till the end of the last century. In so far as the family was the unit and the bringing forth and rearing of children rested on the women?s shoulder, her place was always...

There are several ways in which civilization has been carried from one country to another, and so spread all over the world. One method has been conquest...

Man must eat in order to live; therefore, one of the most important problems man has is that of always being certain that he will have enough to eat when he needs it...

This is a puzzling question. Nobody has yet been able to produce satisfactory definition of poetry. Many of us know when we hear it, but we cannot exactly explain what it is...

A culture is the way of life of some society, including its artifacts, beliefs, accumulated knowledge, and the system of values in which its members live. Also the arts, family life, child rearing, custom of marriage and courtship, education, occupations, government...

Gambling is properly playing games of chance, such as cards, pitch-and-toss, etc? for money. But it also includes betting, which is staking money on an uncertain future event, such as a horse-race. The essential feature of gambling and betting is...

Whether one?s school-days are happy or the reverse, depends a good deal on the character of the school in which one?s lot in cast; for schools are of all kinds good, bad and indifferent. But most schools nowadays are respectable, and some are...

Yes, study comes hard to you, my dear son. You don?t set out for school with that resolute mind and that smiling face which I should like. But listen; reflect a little! How poor and pitiable your days would be if you did not go to school...

Nowadays, nearly every household in the country receives a barrage of various catalogues selling everything from electric golf carts to padded coat hangers. The descriptions of these items suggest that they, too, will help...

The success of a society depends on the coordination between the various components which make up that society. This involves some command from some which has to be carried by some or many. As the saying goes no man is...

A gentleman is a gentle man. In this connection, the word ?gentle? means ?noble?, as it does in the phrase ?of gentle birth?. So, originally, a gentleman was one who, by birth and training, belonged to the upper classes. He was...

The best illustration of this proverb is the old fable of Aesop about the hare and the tortoise. A tortoise, which moves very slowly, challenged a hare, one of the swiftest of the animals, to a race. The hare took it as a joke; and after running...

Deep down in every of us there is an adventurer, and eternally youthful spirit that hungers for new and strange places, for new and wondrous experiences. It is a deeply human feeling, this desire to travel and visit...

Instinct is, properly, the innate and inherited aptitude which drives living creatures to do certain things which seem to be quite natural, without any conscious design. More precisely, ?It is a natural spontaneous tendency or...

I am not sure when this fear started. As far as I can remember, I have never had a desire to touch a roach. The first thing I think of when a person says the word ?roach? is its horrible looks. Their prehistoric appearance makes me cringe...

This proverb just means that there is nothing like a pressing and urgent need for setting people to work to find a way of meeting it...

Patriotism is a loyal feeling which one has about his own country. In the words of Scott when he said ?this is my own, my native land?, he must have a deep and passionately loyal feeling for his country...

When girls dress like boys and young men look like women there is something deeply wrong. Going deeper into the root of this, it maybe worthwhile...

Everyone makes excuses. Who hasn?t said, ?Oh, it?s so hot. I just can?t go outside and wash the car,? or ?he made me do it,? or ?I had a terrible headache?. It seems as we all, at one time or another, a person feel the need to explain...

Topic: ?A switch in time saves nine? Discuss this sentence.

This is an old proverb. Though the saying is old, yet its wisdom always holds good. Most of us is familiar with other proverbs...

Giving football scholarships is really just a wise investment on the part of the university. What the university really needs, wants if money in the form of football ticket sales...

It was nearly dark when my two brothers and I arrived at the Ranger Station in the Shenandoah National park. As the ranger was...

Road accidents are common nowadays because of the fast moving vehicles, congestion on the roads and careless drivers...

The weekend or holiday is a concept which came up with the observation of Sabbath as a holiday by Christians who regard it as God?s Day. The idea is...

The answer to the proposition can be a big ?No? though there may be quite a few who take the opposite view, still the truth will prevail...

Man needs food to live. Food can be classified into two groups - vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Man perhaps started as a non-vegetarian because we know ancient times man hunted for food...

In the old days youth played a secondary role in the society. They never assumed any responsibility. The elders played all the important roles and the youth was...

The major aim is to become and to be a citizen of the world. One may be a citizen of a town or city or a country that is easy because the spirit of the place grows into one?s own blood...

To understand the meaning of height and depth we have to study them separately. Let us take the question of depth first and see what it consists of...

The most obvious cause of obesity is overeating. But why do people overeat? One reason is emotional problems...

Learning how to ride a bicycle can be exciting as well as painful. But I found it very exciting indeed.

One day, last year, I was alone in my house, when something terrible happened. I can still when something terrible happened. I can still remember the incident very clearly.

I am still very young; yet, I already have an ambition. I would like to be a businessman when I grow up.

I have seen many accidents. The worst of them was one in which three persons were involved. I still remember that accident very clearly.

My father has always encouraged me to read. So, I read a lot of story books. But the type of stories that I enjoy most is detective stories.

A day I shall always remember is the day when I celebrated my tenth birthday. All my friends and relatives were invited to the birthday party.

In the country, we can live in the midst of nature. Countryside houses are spread out and there is plenty of greenery. Sometimes green paddy fields or orchards are found...

Behind the ?Rookery? stands a large well-kept farm. I am very fond of going there, and I know all its inhabitants. I am...

To answer this question, we had better go back the period of the middle of the 18th century. It is the period before the great changes that have been done to...

It is worthwhile and proper that one should plan for one?s future early. Everyone is given with certain talents and one should make full use of them for the future welfare and happiness....

The memories of childhood have their own kind of nostalgia. With the passage of time, one feels more attached to this childhood, the best period of a man?s life...

Normally parents tend to treat all children alike. They are given the same food, sometimes the clothing and very often the same time of schooling. There is...

Men have been willing to fight and die for freedom. Yes, that is the essence of history. Where freedom fails or is denied man is willing to fight and die for it...

Eating is a matter of habit and upbringing. What one eats and how one eats depend on various circumstances. One may overeat when there is an abundance to go through...